Claude Code on Desktop

Claude Code on Desktop is a native desktop app for your OS. The standard Claude Desktop has: Claude (Chat), Claude Code, Claude Cowork (tabs).

On Windows you have to turn on Developer Mode.

Claude Code via Desktop has extra features:

Visual diff review with inline comments
Live app preview with dev servers
GitHub PR monitoring with auto-fix and auto-merge
Parallel sessions with automatic Git worktree isolation
Scheduled tasks that run Claude on a recurring schedule
Connectors for GitHub, Slack, Linear, and more (also Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive)
Local, SSH, and cloud environments (Connectors panel lets you pick Local, Add SSH connection, Remote control, or a cloud environment)
Skills examples included: skill-creator, algorithmic-art, brand-guidelines, canvas-design, doc-coauthoring, internal-comms, mcp-builder, slack-gif-creator, theme-factory, web-artifacts-builder